A canon lawyer for an elite Catholic prep school told New Jersey jurors Monday that the school's operator feels a duty to protect minors from sexual abuse, but admitted that some investigations into such allegations had been limited.
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Clergy Sex Abuse Inquiry Was Limited, NJ Jurors Told

By Carla Baranauckas

A canon lawyer for an elite Catholic prep school told New Jersey jurors Monday that the school's operator feels a duty to protect minors from sexual abuse, but admitted that some investigations into such allegations had been limited.

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Feds Urge 3rd Circ. To Restore NJ US Atty's Authority

By Emily Sawicki

The federal government has urged the Third Circuit to reverse a district court ruling disqualifying acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba from prosecuting two criminal cases in New Jersey after the clock allegedly ran out on her interim term, arguing that her appointment is valid and that the court erred in its interpretation of the statute.

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SEC Says 'Nutrient Infused' Water Biz Was A $10.3M Fraud

By Emilie Ruscoe

A phony dentist and his "nutrient infused" bottled-water company have agreed to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they fraudulently raised $10.3 million from over 50 investors after he agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud in a parallel criminal case, the agency said Monday.

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NJ AG Names New Leader Of Public Integrity Office

By Jake Maher

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced Monday that he has appointed a longtime prosecutor with a track record of handling high-profile corruption cases to lead the state Office of Public Integrity and Accountability.

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Sills Cummis Aims To Block Atty, Paralegal Depos In Fees Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Sills Cummis & Gross PC has asked a New Jersey state court to block a former client's bid for depositions in a lawsuit alleging the law firm padded legal bills that reached about $1.5 million, arguing the testimony is "unnecessary and improper."

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THIRD CIRCUIT

In Reversal, 3rd Circ. Lets Honda Challenge NJ Town Tow Law

By Elizabeth Daley

A Third Circuit panel reversed a district court's decision Monday, finding that Honda can argue it was denied due process after a New Jersey borough seized its vehicle from an uninsured lessee for driving uninsured, with a suspended license and registration.

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3rd Circ. Unsure When Uber Wage Case Hits Dead End

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Third Circuit panel on Monday questioned at what point a judge is permitted to declare that a case can't be resolved, as it considered a bid by Uber drivers to revive employment misclassification claims that already resulted in two deadlocked juries.   

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DEALS

NJ Multifamily Building Nabs $220M Bridge Loan

By Isaac Monterose

Developer Namdar Group borrowed a $220 million bridge loan from real estate lender TYKO Capital to refinance Namdar's 576-unit, 27-story mixed-use Jersey City, New Jersey, multifamily property, commercial real estate finance services company Walker & Dunlop Inc. announced Monday.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Ex-Epstein Prosecutor Maurene Comey Sues DOJ Over Firing

By Emily Sawicki

Maurene Comey, a former Manhattan federal prosecutor who brought high-profile criminal cases against the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean "Diddy" Combs, sued the Justice Department on Monday alleging her abrupt July firing came "solely or substantially" because she is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a Trump critic.

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Tom Goldstein Can't Pay Attys With 'Tainted Funds,' DOJ Says

By Jeff Overley

Indicted appellate luminary Tom Goldstein cannot cover his legal bills by selling his multimillion-dollar home, because it's a "tainted asset" worth "far less" than his attorney fees, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a blistering court filing, adding that Goldstein may flee the country as his reputation and marriage collapse.

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Calif. Court Issues AI Hallucinations 'Warning,' Sanctions Atty

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals court has issued a published opinion "as a warning" to Golden State attorneys to personally review case law quotations made by generative artificial intelligence, and imposed a $10,000 monetary sanction on plaintiff's counsel in an otherwise straightforward appeal in an employment case.

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Fired DOJ Deputy Says Lobbyists 'Playing Dangerous Game'

By Bryan Koenig

A former top Justice Department Antitrust Division deputy, allegedly fired for opposing the "pay-to-play" settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, had a warning Monday for the lobbyists he said made the deal possible: there are only so many times they can go over division leadership.

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Stradley Ronon Wants Keesal Young's Poaching Suit Tossed

By Emma Cueto

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has moved to nix a suit by California firm Keesal Young & Logan, saying its recruitment of 10 former Keesal Young attorneys was entirely above board and that the noncompete clauses in Keesal Young's partnership agreement were not allowed under California law.

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FTC Commissioner Says Antitrust Moment Has Been Building

By Matthew Perlman

Federal Trade Commissioner Mark R. Meador said Monday the current interest in antitrust enforcement has been building for the last several decades as corporate boardrooms increasingly take control over the economic lives of Americans.

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3 Law Firms Want Ford's 'Thermonuclear' RICO Suit Snuffed

By Linda Chiem

Knight Law Group LLP, the Altman Law Group and Wirtz Law APC have urged a California federal judge to dismantle Ford Motor Co.'s racketeering lawsuit accusing the firms of overzealous billing and conspiring to dupe unsuspecting clients in product liability and personal injury cases against automakers.

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Software Co. Defends Contempt Order Against Womble Atty

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina federal court fairly held Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen in contempt after he and his client made misrepresentations in a "parallel" trademark dispute abroad, U.S.-based software company Dmarcian Inc. told the Fourth Circuit on Friday.

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DC Circ. Says Fed's Cook Can Keep Job For Now

By Jon Hill

A D.C. Circuit panel said Monday that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook can remain on the central bank's board while challenging President Donald Trump's effort to fire her, clearing the way for her to participate in a key interest-rate policy vote this week.

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Senate Confirms Top Trump Economist To Federal Reserve

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed top White House economist Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve Board on Monday, giving President Donald Trump a close ally at the central bank as he pushes for greater control over the traditionally independent body.

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DC Circ. Won't Stay District Court's Order On Quick Removals

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit declined to stay a district judge's suspension of specific U.S. Department of Homeland Security actions implementing expedited removal of noncitizen parolees Friday, saying that the government faces no irreparable harm from the order because it has separate, pre-existing regulatory authority to quickly deport parolees.

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W.Va., Idaho Tell Justices Trans Sports Bans Based On Science

By Elaine Briseño

West Virginia and Idaho urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that courts should not use subjective preferences when analyzing whether laws that ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams different from their sex assigned at birth violate the Constitution.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Katryna Perera and Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's governor weighed in on a challenge to recently approved state legislation that bars damages or "equitable" relief for some controlling stockholder or going-private deals. Meanwhile, Moelis told the Delaware Supreme Court that the struck-down stockholder agreement that triggered that legislation was valid. Additionally, one of two newly funded magistrates' posts in the Chancery Court has been filled.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Atkinson Andelson

Blank Rome

Brooks Pierce

Clarick Gueron

Cooley LLP

Coughlin Midlige

Ellis & Winters

Flynn Legal Group

Fox Rothschild

Gold Albanese

Goldstein & Russell

Hecker Fink

Hodel Wilks

Keesal Young

Klinedinst PC

Knight Law Group

Koskoff Koskoff

Krovatin Nau

Lichten & Liss Riordan

Littler Mendelson

Lowell & Associates

Milbank LLP

Munger Tolles

Norris McLaughlin

Oberheiden PC

Pillsbury Winthrop

Porter Thomas

Post & Schell

Robins Kaplan

Sacks Weston

Scheier Law Firm

Sills Cummis

Stanley Law Firm

Stradley Ronon

Williams & Connolly

Wilson Elser

Wirtz Law APC

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Bankers Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Economic Liberties Project

CohnReznick LLP

Ford Motor Co.

George Washington University

Google LLC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Jana Partners LLC

Juniper Networks Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Moelis & Co.

Temple University

The Kroger Co.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Villanova University

Walker & Dunlop Inc.

Zendesk Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Idaho Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

U.S. Supreme Court

West Virginia Attorney General's Office